Recent News

In the Heat of the Night, East Central University’s first featured stage performance of the 2014-2015 Fine Arts Season, is set for 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 5, in the Ataloa Theatre of the Hallie Brown Ford Fine Arts Center.

L.A. Theatre Works, with Susan Albert Loewenberg as producing director, is presenting In the Heat of the Night, based on John Ball’s novel by the same name.

Experience the unique charms of The Big Easy at East Central University’s “New Orleans Night,” featuring a Dixieland jazz combo, New Orleans-themed sweets and the screening of the Royal National Theatre’s production of A Streetcar Named Desire.

The festivities will begin at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 14, in the Bill S. Cole University Center, followed by the screening at 7 p.m. in the Raymond J. Estep Multimedia Center.

Dr. Jonathan White, a historian of the American Civil War, will present the 2014 Rothbaum Lecture, entitled “Lincoln and Civil Liberties,” at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 13, in the Estep Multimedia Room of the Bill S. Cole University Center.

Two East Central University students – Laura Asaro and Linzi Thompson – achieved first place awards in the 20th Annual Oklahoma Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (OK-LSAMP) Research Symposium poster competition, held recently at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater.

The East Central University Harland C. Stonecipher School of Business Stakeholder Luncheon is set for noon to 1 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 22, in the ECU Foundation Hall of the Chickasaw Business and Conference Center.

The unveiling of the new Business Scholars Program will take place and representatives from Kellogg and Sovereign Consulting, LLC will be speaking about the new student opportunity.

Just how far a scorned woman will go to exact her revenge will be on display as East Central University hosts the screening of Medea at 1 p.m. and again at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 8, in the Raymond J. Estep Multimedia Center of the Bill S. Cole University Center.

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